by Gordon Perlmutter | Aug 17, 2024
Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government. From 2014 to 2017, Kupchan served as special assistant to...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Aug 4, 2024
Keith Mines is vice president of the Latin America program at USIP. Mines joined USIP after a career at the State Department, where he was most recently director for Andean and Venezuelan affairs. In 32 years of diplomatic and military service, he has worked on...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Jul 11, 2024
This is a zoom presentation Jaymi Smith graduated from Penn State Berks with a degree in Global Studies in Spring 2023. Currently, she is serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Timor-Leste, a small island in Southeast Asia. In her presentation, she will share her...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Jun 7, 2024
EVENT CANCELLED Dr. Randall Fegley, Associate Professor of History at Penn State Berks, was named Executive Director of the Sudan Studies Association (SSA) during the organization?s 32nd Annual Conference on May 24, 2013, at the University of Pennsylvania in...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Apr 25, 2024
Brief biography: Ronald J. Granieri is a 2024 Templeton Fellow and the Director of the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He also hosts People, Politics, and Prose, a monthly event series at FPRI. Dr. Granieri is...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Apr 24, 2024
Carol Jenkins is the CEO of World Learning Inc., which encompasses three distinct branches: The Experiment in International Living; School for International Training, which includes SIT Study Abroad and SIT Graduate Institute; and the nonprofit global development and...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Apr 23, 2024
Bret Schafer is a senior fellow and head of the Alliance for Securing Democracy’s information manipulation team. Bret is the creator and manager of Hamilton 2.0, an online open-source dashboard tracking the outputs of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Apr 10, 2024
Ambassador William B. Taylor is vice president, Europe and Russia at the U.S. Institute of Peace. In 2019, he served as chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv and as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. During the Arab Spring, he oversaw U.S....
by Gordon Perlmutter | Apr 10, 2024
Natan Sachs is the director of the Center for Middle East Policy and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Department of Government and its Security Studies Program. Prior to...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Mar 18, 2024
VIRTUAL EVENT 12:00 NOON APRIL 10TH Mr. Witman will review the 4,000 year history of the region, expanding upon the well-received presentation he made as part of the panel discussion on the current Palestinian and Israeli conflict hosted by the World Affairs Council...